They lurk in nursing homes and hospitals - anywhere where people's resistance is down. One, VRE, a usually harmless microbe found in the human bowel and genital tract, is already drug-resistant; the other, MSRA, currently treatable with vancomycin-type antibiotics, is quickly becoming resistant to their effects. Using real-life case studies of patients who are infected, this program studies the effects of the diseases, how they are contracted, and their often deadly consequences.

Films Media Group

Drug resistance in microorganisms, Vancomycin resistance, Nosocomial infections, Health and medicine

Fusco, Angela (Narrator), Henderson, Gordon S. (Producer), Henderson, Gordon S. (Director), Matheson, Geoff (Film editor), Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm) (Distributor)

00:47:32 (HH:MM:SS)

English

Higher education

Name	Films Media Group (Firm)
Role	Distributor
Telephone	800-257-5126
Address	200 Metro Blvd., Suite 124, Hamilton, NJ 08619
Email	[email protected]

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